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10.4: Create multi-partition Boot Camp disks
Authored by: fds on Apr 17, '06 08:51:42PM

Some posts from macgeekery.com's page on the same subject, made by who I assume to be an Apple engineer:

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sphns on April 10, 2006 - 8:36pm
pdisk is for APM maps only (Apple Partition map, the PPC map)

fdisk is for MBR maps only (Mast boot record, what's on your camera flash disks

gpt is for gpt maps only.

HOWEVER, gpt does not understand the partition format that's used for bootcamp. Using it to create/destroy partitions will not do what you want.

The only thing that will create bootcamp compatible partitions is diskutil under 10.4.6 or later...

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sphns on April 10, 2006 - 8:46pm
Some late model ppc macs will boot from gpt disks, but the vast majority of them will not.

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sphns on April 10, 2006 - 8:48pm
Resizing does not work on ppc at all. Resizing does not work on APM maps either.

Under 10.4.6, you can only resize JHFS+ volumes on gpt maps on Intel machines.

See my other comment as to why it might fail even in this case...



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